MSP reviewing video of crash involving Ionia DPS, civilian Monday

IONIA — The Michigan State Police-Lakeview Post is reviewing video footage in its investigation of a collision involving a public safety patrol car and a civilian vehicle at 9:37 p.m. Monday night.

Ionia Department of Public Safety Officer Ben Fryc had turned left from westbound West Washington Street and was heading southbound on Dexter Street when a northbound pickup truck failed to yield the right of way, according to IDPS Deputy Director John Odette. The driver attempted to turn into the driveway of the Marathon gas station in front of the patrol car, and Fryc struck the passenger side of the truck.

Odette said MSP was called in to investigate because this was an officer-involved accident and the department does not investigate incidents involving its own officers. The crash was captured on the officer’s in-car video camera.

IDPS personnel removed the truck’s passenger door to extricate a passenger from the vehicle, and she was transported by Life EMS to Sparrow Ionia Hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Neither the driver of the truck nor Fryc were injured. Both vehicles sustained significant damage, Odette said.

Fryc had been dispatched to take a non-priority complaint in the 600 block of West Main Street when the crash occurred, said Odette. He was not running in emergency mode.

Fryc joined IDPS in October 2015. He has had no incidents prior to this accident, Odette said.

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QUITE POSSIBLY THE MOST SHOCKING VIDEO EVER SEEN ON SOCIAL MEDIA

(According to THE MSM)

SHOCKING!

Brother Helps Trapped Brother By Pushing.

AMAZING!

Yeah I know, it’s a kid pushing a dresser off his kid brother, very brave. Thankfully surveillance tapes weren’t common when I was a snot-nosed little kid. I’d still be in prison as my little brother suffered….and rightly so. He smelled funny and wouldn’t stop touching my stuff.

I probably, although it can’t be proven, pushed a dresser on top of my brother a few times.

A gaggle of teens find a gun in their grandmothers bedroom; supposedly unloaded according to reports in the media, and use it to scare another teen to death…literally.

So the teens find the weapon, one of them loads it and giggling with anticipation they present the weapon to the dead teen in an attempt to “scare him”, the gun discharges striking the 13 year old in the chest, another promising young man in Detroit dead.

Why they loaded it if it was in fact unloaded, I don’t know, but let’s keep going here.

So I’m going with the lack of criminal intent, if only for this blog post. I’m sure the Detroit Police will determine intent during the investigation, but for now I’m going with the whole accidental shooting thing.

So, the teens in question, 3 of them ranging in age from 13-15 years old make a terrible choice and end up killing another.

The intent to kill wasn’t there in this scenario, just to scare the crap out of the dead teen if you’re to believe all the reports. I’m going to break all the rules and do just that right now.

They made a choice by removing the weapon and playing with it.

So now the police, Detroit in this case, are holding a hard working woman in custody because the gun she owns was insecure, unsecured…whatever.

This isn’t the first time that’s happened in Detroit, just the latest.

Choices

So we have 3 teens who made a bad choice and tossed personal responsibility out the window, a dead teen who’s only mistake was being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and a grandmother now facing a criminal record over those bad choices made by the 3 teens.

There are no laws in Michigan requiring owners of firearms to secure those firearms with gunlocks or safes.

Sec. 1. Any person who, because of carelessness, recklessness or negligence, but not wilfully or wantonly, shall cause or allow any firearm under his immediate control, to be discharged so as to kill or injure another person, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 2 years, or by a fine of not more than $2,000.00, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 1 year, in the discretion of the court.

Personal Responsibility

Does it make sense to have a weapon secured with a gunlock? Of course it does, especially when you have young children in the home.

In this case, I’d argue that teens ranging in age between 13-15 aren’t kids, though.

If the weapon is there for self defense, no. There are no weapons here that are secured by gunlocks. That would defeat the purpose of having the weapon ready for use in the case it was needed.

Example: Bad guy enters home, bad guy shouldn’t be in home, bad guy needs to be sent screaming to Hell for making a bad choice.

There are also no children present in our home. Zero, grandchildren or otherwise. None. Would those weapons be secured if there was, of course.

If our home is left unattended, yes, they’re secured behind a moat filled with Nile crocodiles.

If we make laws punishing people for the poor choices of others, what would stop our lawmakers from drafting a law punishing my wife if I went outside in slippers during a period of ice and snow, then fell on my fat ass when I slipped on a patch of ice? (This just happened, leave her alone, I made a bad choice)

We cannot legislate stupid, irresponsibility, carelessness. If there’s intent to harm, injure or maim, then yes, but there are laws on the books for that.

The Police Response

Police said they believe the shooting is a result of a gun owner failing to properly secure her weapon.

My Response

The Detroit Scanner believes the shooting is a result of stupid teens making stupid choices.

Update: Autopsy reports state the teen was shot in the back, not the chest. A game changer?